Training for Community Providers

Community providers play a key role in providing psychological health care for service members and veterans. It is important for these providers to enhance their military cultural competency in order to improve communication and trust with their military patients and avoid potential adverse impacts on the treatment process and outcomes. Below is a list of training organizations and specific trainings applicable to clinical providers. The organizations below provide CEUs for providers at no cost to the individual.

Training Organizations

The CDP trains military and civilian behavioral health professionals to provide high-quality, culturally-sensitive, evidence-based behavioral health services to military personnel, veterans and their families.

Give an Hour’s mission is to develop national networks of volunteers capable of responding to both acute and chronic conditions that arise within society, beginning with the mental health needs of those who serve and their families.

Military Culture Training

Features key tools to support the community mental health providers who serve veterans. Providers can find information on connecting with VA, understanding military culture and experience, as well as tools for working with a variety of mental health conditions.

The continuing education course presents important information regarding military demographics, branches, rank, status, and stressors. The author provides useful terminology and visuals to help the viewer understand military culture.

Addressing the Psychological Health of Warriors and Their Families is CDP’s 1-week training course on deployment-spectrum behavioral health concerns facing the military population. It is offered four times per year in different regions of the country to non-military or civilian licensed mental health providers. This includes psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, licensed professional counselors, and marriage & family therapists who are actively treating Active Duty, National Guard or Reserve Personnel, Veterans, or their families or plan to actively treat this population.

A one week training course on deployment-spectrum behavioral health concerns facing the military population. It is offered four times per year in different regions of the country to non-military or civilian licensed mental health providers, to include psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, licensed professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists who are actively treating active duty, National Guard or reserve personnel, veterans, or their families or plan to actively treat this population.

A resource for veterans, service members and their families to locate mental health professionals with specialized training in understanding and treating military service members and their families. Those listed in this registry have completed a series of trainings that are intended to make them better able to understand, assess and counsel members of the military.